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was acknowledged just and are paid and the other case I have stated my office hours are from half past eight to 12 and from [[strikethrough]] 12 [[/strikethough]] 1 to 5 o'clock P.M. I have been absent from the office 23 days during the month The Apprentice law would be an engine of oppression if it was not for the fear of the Military. It is now an advantage to all that is apprenticed as I require the orphan good and wholesome food, clothing, and medical attendance where sick and to be learned if a boy farming or other trade and if a girl housekeeping washing and grooming, sewing, and cooking, and to be educated to read and write. I enclose to you judge Young answer to a communication he received from me. My Business has required no further upset during the month except a little disturbance here in this place in my absence = The Editor of the Bosque Beacon is a one leged man he taught school and edited the Paper about six week age - he come out strong for the Congressional plan of reconstruction the people here is vary hostile at Congress and the turned him out of his school he then commended upon their course in his next paper and he was threatened to be mobbed _ and there was a Mr Philip S'yon a merchant here he sided with the Editor our Sherriff went his store and abused him badly then our Post Master he went and also abused for a Radical and wanted to kill him I apprehend some trouble when an election take place

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a double s looks like one letter, such as in business, congressional, or congress ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-04-13 10:33:40